Adidas products are also produced really cheap due to child labour. So that’s another reason to make those cheaper for customers.
Spoiler alert, most stuff in the fashion industry is chocked full of human rights violations.
Climate Town on Shirts: https://youtu.be/8CkgCYPe68Q
But if I stop buying them, won’t I be putting hundreds of children out of work?
Yep. Probably the best thing you’ll do all month.
No. The shirts will continue to be made and sent to wholesalers, who then dispose of the finished garments in giant landfills.
Truly the circle of life
ironically technically not true
one principle of marketing is the knowledge that the brand actually adds (perceived) value for many consumers, and so they are willing to pay more
It’s true that this is how most consumers act. It’s dumb, but iirc it’s factually correct.
If you take a brand name shirt, remove the logo in a way that is visually perfect, and sell them side-by-side, then the logo shirt will outsell the non-logo shirt. Or so I’ve heard.
Absolutely. There are definitely people like OP who prefer products without branding, but for the majority (average) of consumers in many markets, the branding actually adds value.
“SuPrEmE” somehow did this and created a rabid following over some of the most basic stuff I’ve ever seen. It’s a meme now to just stick their logo on like, a literal brick so it’s suddenly more “desirable.”
Truly boggles the mind.
That is an extreme example of this, yes. Other examples of branding can be much more subtle and deft, e.g. Apple’s product design. It’s not in-your-face but nevertheless it’s present and adds to the consumer experience and perception of value.
Trick yourself out until you look like a NASCAR
Wow how has that guy been able to look the same during all those years
I can dig the 2040’s.
But of an un branded vibe to it too.
Wait… Is that 2020s really what it looks like now?! Or is the meme just 5 years old?
I have several polo Ralph Lauren clothing items in my home, the logo hasn’t changed significantly in 30+ years in shape or size on the normal polos. They do have some items that have the polo logo or the teddy bear larger but those are in the main Ralph Lauren line for fashion, not the Polo line polo shirts that are a business casual intent
I want a divorce
Because you look like a horse.
And that is why, with our new triangle shaped business model, you and your customers are getting paid for wearing our shirts!
That’s right! The more shirts you buy, the more you are getting paid! Just grap a couple of friends and get rich together!
It’s not a pyramid scheme when it’s 2D
‘Do I get a discount if I take your free gym bag with the name of your gym’. Response is always no and a very weird stare
Also grocery bags. I pay for them, don’t want you logo on it
Also grocery bags. I pay for them, don’t want you logo on it
One alcohol bewerage chain in Russia popularized the blank black bag format in recent years, in theory - to make it less obvious you’ve bought booze. They are sturdy, have good handles, so overall it’s a win. But since they are the most popular source of them, a blank black bag therefore automatically means booze.
It’s damn near impossible to find bags without some greedy shit grocery companies trashy branding all over it. I still use plastic bags. Got a million of them in the weird plastic tub thing that everyone has a million of them in.
People look when I pull out some 15 year old plastic bag is amazing.
Yeah, that’s why I won’t wear stuff like that
Now, there’s the adjacent, but not the same thing of band shirts or similar merchandise. The difference is that in theory, the band/artist is going to benefit from the purchase. It is still advertising that I’m paying for, but, because merchandise is often a big income stream for musicians in particular, I don’t object to being their billboard if I like them enough to get anything of theirs in the first place.
When it’s a clothing company? Hell no. If their label/logo is more than the size of a tag, I’m not doing it. I don’t mind the idea of a trademark/label/tag being present, that’s expected. It’s when the branding becomes the design that it’s a problem.
Yeah I’m fond of the “Tshirts that make a statement” thing.
It’s personal expression to say “Hey I’m really into this band and I might’ve gone to this concert!” Could be a conversation starter too, and it supports the band or artist like you said!
But I really don’t understand people walking around with some billboard from a clothing mega-brand. You’re literally paying them to do marketing work for them lol.
Yes yes yes
I actually just bought a saddlebag for my bike which was cheaper because it has a (rather inconspicuous) company logo on it.
Pirate a shirt by buying the cheaper ad one and turning it inside out
Almost all of my branded shirts were free. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
That’s how I get basically all my shirts
I also get shirts from when family members travel. They’re typically “branded” with locations rather than corporate trademarks, though.
No no you should get paid to wear them
I go pretty far to my way to make sure my branded t-shirts are from small to mid-sized online content creators that I enjoy. It works out because they usually put a lot of effort into making sure their stuff is unique
My thoughts exactly. I stopped wearing conspicuously branded products when I was in highschool for this very reason.
In sociology and in economics, the term conspicuous consumption describes and explains the consumer practice of buying and using goods of a higher quality, price, or in greater quantity than practical. In 1899, the sociologist Thorstein Veblen coined the term conspicuous consumption to explain the spending of money on and the acquiring of luxury commodities (goods and services) specifically as a public display of economic power—the income and the accumulated wealth—of the buyer. To the conspicuous consumer, the public display of discretionary income is an economic means of either attaining or of maintaining a given social status.
This results in what may be known as Veblen goods, for which the demand increases as the price increases, in apparent contradiction of the law of demand, resulting in an upward-sloping demand curve.
The entire principle Apple is based on
The bougie love advertising for free! You know how many yeti stickers I see on cars? It’s a fucking ice chest…
Those Apple stickers. This was in the Bay Area but not that many people work at Apple. Even if they did, who would advertise their employer on their car??
The stickers come free with any of their tech
I’m aware but you don’t need to use them!
They’re stickers.
The universe gets all tensiony if they don’t get stuck on things.
what is “leer” for that matter
Are you referring to seeing “Leer” on the backs of trucks? If so, Leer makes the tonneau covers.
you just used more words I don’t know
The truck bed covers.
still don’t understand why they like to advertise the brand is that like part of their personality? is it the Arch Linux of truck bed covers?
Its a logo applied by the manufacturer.
surely that’s not structurally necessary for its function
It’s Spanish Big Book propaganda.
I prefer to belive this explanation except I always see it on big gas guzzlers and the drivers look like people who don’t read any books in any language